scholarly journals O contexto ecumênico de Medellín e o posicionamento católico sobre a unidade cristã na América Latina

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Wolff

As Conclusões da Conferência de Medellín é o primeiro documento do episcopado católico latino-americano que insere o ecumenismo no agir pastoral da Igreja Católica no continente. Não dedica uma seção especial ao tema, mas o apresenta como um elemento transversal nas diversas temáticas abordadas. A Conferência foi, em si mesma, uma significativa experiência ecumênica pela presença dos representantes das Igrejas e a prática da hospitalidade eucarística na celebração de encerramento. Medellín foi uma real recepção das orientações conciliares sobre o aggiornamento da Igreja, para o qual o ecumenismo tem uma função fundamental em nossos tempos.Palavras chave: Medellín. Igreja. Missão. Ecumenismo.Abstract: The Conclusions of the Medellin Conference is the first document of the Latin American Catholic bishops who enter ecumenism in the pastoral action of the Catholic Church on the continent. It does not dedicate a special section to the theme, but it presents it as a transversal element in the various thematic topics covered. The conference was, in itself, a significant ecumenical experience for the presence of the representatives of the churches and the practice of Eucharistic Hospitality in the celebration of closure. Medellin was a real reception of the conciliation guidelines on the aggiornamento of the church, for which Ecumenism has a fundamental function in our times.Keywords: Medellín. Church. Mission. Ecumenism

Worldview ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 13-15
Author(s):  
Renato Poblete

The Third General Assembly of the Latin American Episcopate took place last February in the Mexican city of Puebla. Without doubt it will make a profound impact upon the evangelizing action of the Church in Latin America. The documents produced at Puebla, like those produced in Medellin ten years earlier, will give rise to reflections that will find their way into the diverse pastoral plans of each nation.Neither Medellin nor Puebla can be considered isolated phenomenon. On the contrary, each should be seen as fruits of a maturing process in which Christian people, together with their pastors, express both the depths of their anguish and their high hopes and visions. That vision encompasses raising people from subhuman situations to a fuller experience of human life. Such experience should be expected to bring people together in brotherly love and lead naturally to a greater openness to God.


1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Renato Poblete

Ten years ago the Latin American Catholic Bishops held their Second General Conference in Medellín, Colombia. The conference had a great influence not only within the Catholic Church, but also on the formation of socioeconomic and political issues in Latin American countries. At the time of this writing, we are in the midst of preparations for the Third General Conference taking place in Puebla, Mexico, in October 1978. Therefore, this seems a good opportunity to reflect on the general processes of change in the Church leading to Puebla and their implications for the future.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madelyn Evans

Since the earliest days of colonization, religion – in particular, the Roman Catholic Church – has been a driving force in the Latin American politics, economics, and society. As the region underwent frequent political instability and high levels of violence, the Church remained a steady, powerful force in society. This paper will explore the relationship between the Catholic Church and the struggle to defend human rights during the particularly oppressive era of bureaucratic-authoritarianism in Latin America throughout the 1960s–1980s. This paper seeks to demonstrate that the Church undertook the struggle to protect human rights because its modernized social mission sought to support the oppressed suffering from the political, economic, and social status quo. In challenging the legitimacy of the ruling national security ideology and illuminating the moral dimensions of violence, the Catholic Church became a crucial constructive agent in spurring social change, mitigating the effects of violence, and setting a democratic framework for the future.


1975 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-144
Author(s):  
Mathias C. Kiemen

Historians studying the Church in Latin American have recently been receiving excellent assistance from political scientists and sociologists such as Ivan Vallier and François Houtart, and now the present author, Thomas C. Bruneau. There certainly is a place for sociology in the study of the Catholic Church. Bruneau’s theses concerning Church development in Brazil are, therefore, vitally interesting to professional historians of this country.


Author(s):  
Luis Bastidas Meneses ◽  
Tom Kaden ◽  
Bernt Schnettler

AbstractThis article analyzes the cult of the souls in Purgatory in Puerto Berrío, Colombia, and its relationship with the Catholic Church. Through empirical evidence, it identifies three characteristics of this cult, namely, its relative independence from the Catholic Church, its heterogeneity and its utilitarian character, and compares them with other cases of Latin American popular Catholicism. The particularities of the cult enable an analysis of how popular religion, rather than generating a conflict with the Catholic Church, maintains an ambiguous relationship with it. The case shows that popular religion not only incorporates the symbolic structure of the Catholic Church to legitimize itself, but also that the church tolerates it, contributing to the peaceful coexistence of the popular and the institutionalized. Consequently, this leads believers, instead of adhering to a supposed binary opposition, to shift between popular and institutionalized religion.


1964 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-318
Author(s):  
Fredrick B. Pike

Throughout Latin America the Catholic Church has embarked upon a process of modernization. The key element in modernization has been the assumption of an active role in the quest for economic betterment of the conditions in which a majority of the population lives. Realizing that a modern nation is an integrated nation, the Church seems to have adopted as its motto: A Modem Church in a Modern Nation. Consequently, it has begun to help Latin American republics become nations through the integration of previously excluded groups into society.


1977 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel H. Levine ◽  
Alexander W. Wilde

The issue of politics and the Catholic Church in Latin America, relegated until recently to nineteenth-century historians, is very much alive today. On the one hand, the church as an institution is enmeshed in public controversy over human rights with repressive regimes from Paraguay to Panama, from Brazil to Chile. When it serves as a shelter for political and social dissent, it is accused by secular authorities of engaging in a “new clericalism.” On the other hand, it has been assailed by critics within for being wed to existing political powers. These radical clergy and lay people believe that the church's social presence is inevitably political, but want to change its alliances to benefit the poor and dispossessed. Furthermore, they believe that the existing order in given situations is aform of “institutionalized violence” against which the Christian response must be “counterviolence.” Such attacks from right and left occur, paradoxically, just at a time when the Latin American church has turned with unprecedented resolve to fundamental pastoral tasks. Politics has thus become a problem just as the hierarchy can claim, with considerable justification, to have eschewedthe practice of partisanship and the pursuit of power.


2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (289) ◽  
pp. 150-180
Author(s):  
Sávio Carlos Desan Scopinho

Este artigo estuda a interpretação do Magistério Eclesiástico da Igreja Católica sobre o laicato na Segunda Conferência Episcopal Latino-Americana, realizada em Medellín (Colômbia), no ano de 1968. Nessa Conferência ocorreu uma tentativa de sistematizar e definir o papel do laicato na Igreja e na sociedade, retomando as intuições do Concílio Vaticano II (1962-1965) e a visão do Magistério Eclesiástico latino-americano. A proposta é, portanto, oferecer uma visão sincrônica e diacrônica da temática, com foco no documento conclusivo da Conferência de Medellín, no que diz respeito à questão do laicato, considerando ainda as implicações históricas posteriores à realização da Conferência, principalmente na XIV Assembleia do CELAM, realizada em Sucre, na Bolívia, no ano de 1972. Assim, o objetivo é demonstrar, numa perspectiva crítica e sistemática, que o leigo na concepção do Magistério Eclesiástico latino-americano teve uma evolução histórica e doutrinal, sempre com muitos desafios e fragilidades, mas, ao mesmo tempo, com esperanças e possibilidades. A Igreja Católica na América Latina, desde a realização do Concílio Vaticano II, vivência um contexto histórico e doutrinal de ambiguidades e contradições, sem perder o ideal cristão, que se pauta numa sociedade justa, solidária e comprometida com a opção pelos pobres. O leigo é chamado a ter consciência dessa realidade e a assumir sua responsabilidade diante dos desafios presentes na própria estrutura da Igreja, assim como na relação com a sociedade. Nesse contexto eclesial e social, não se pode negligenciar a importância da Conferência de Medellín, devido à sua contribuição doutrinal e pastoral sobre o laicato, que será posteriormente retomada nos documentos conclusivos das Conferências Episcopais latino-americanas de Puebla (1979), Santo Domingo (1992) e Aparecida (2007). Abstract: This article studies the understanding of the Ecclesiastical Magisterium of the Catholic Church about the laity in the second Latin American Episcopal Conference held in Medellin, Colombia, in 1968. At that conference there was an attempt to systematize and define the role of the laity inside the Church and society, resuming the intuitions of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and the view of the Latin American Ecclesiastical Magisterium. So, the proposal is to offer a diachronic and synchronic view about the theme, having the focus on the conclusive document of the Medellin Conference referring the laity issue. It’s also necessary to take in account the Conference subsequent historical entailments, especially at the XIV CELAM Assembly, held in Sucre, Bolivia, in 1972. Therefore, the aimis to demonstrate, in a critical and systematic perspective, that the layman has had a historical and doctrinal development in the Latin American Ecclesiastical Magisterium view, always with many challenges and fragilities, but also with hopes and possibilities at the same time. The Catholic Church in Latin America has experienced a historical and doctrinal context of ambiguities and contradictions since the Second Vatican Council, without losing the Christian ideal that is based on a fair, supportive and committed society with the option for the poor. The laity is called to have consciousness about that reality and to accept his responsibility before the challenges present in the own Church structure and in the relationship with society as well. In this ecclesial and social context, we must not neglect the importance of the Medellin Conference, since it has a doctrinal and pastoral contribution to the laity, which will be resumed later in the conclusive documents of the Episcopal Latin American Conferences in Puebla (1979), Santo Domingo (1992) and Aparecida (2007).Keyword: Latin American Bishops, Conference of Medellín, Laity


Author(s):  
Lucas Soares Portela

Da mesma forma que Cristo dividiu sua missão com os apóstolos, o Papa divide seu pontificado com colaboradores, sendo estes determinantes para a condução da Política da Igreja. Este artigo aborda as alterações que o Papa Francisco realizou durante o primeiro ano de seu pontificado, com o objetivo de analisar as tendências organizacionais deste novo pontificado e sua relação com a “hemorragia de fiéis” na América Latina. Esta reflexão é realizada abordando inicialmente os aspectos metodológicos sobre a Política Vaticana. Posteriormente, o artigo realiza um debate sobre novos órgãos no processo decisório vaticanista e a reconfiguração de órgãos antigos. Além de falar das mudanças, o artigo também fala das manutenções no processo decisório da Igreja, pois elas também trazem muito significado sobre as intenções do papa Argentino. Para tanto, o método de pesquisa utilizado é a documentação direta, tendo com instrumentos a pesquisa bibliográfica e documental. Ao final do artigo, foi concluída uma tendência ao perfil moderado no governo do Papa Francisco, além de uma predisposição por nomes latino-americanos ou que tiveram experiências e residências no continente latino-americano. Os resultados deste estudo contribuem para futuras pesquisas sobre o governo da Santa Sé em resposta a “hemorragia de fiéis” na América Latina. Palavras-chave: Igreja Católica. Cardeais. Organização Política.AbstractAs the same way Christ shared his mission with the apostles, the Pope shares his administration with his collaborators and the choice of these men is crucial for the conduct of Church.This article discusses the changes that the Pope Francis held during the first year of his pontificate to analyze the organizational trends of this new pontificate and its relationship with the bleeding of the faithful in Latin America. The discussion covers methodological issues about Vatican policy; a debate on new organs of the Vatican in political decisions; reconfiguration of existing agencies; and maintenance in the decision making process of the church. Thus, the research method used was direct documentation, and used the bibliographic and documentary research. Finally, the article noted a tendency to moderate profile in the government of the Pope Francisco, and it also noted a predisposition for Latin-American names or who have had experiences and residences in the Latin American continent. Result of this priority to stop the bleeding of the faithful in Latin America and manage crises in the Church as a whole.Keywords: Catholic Church. Cardinals. Policy Organization. 


Horizons ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Charles E. Curran

The story of Catholicism in the United States can best be understood in light of the struggle to be both Catholic and American. This question of being both Catholic and American is currently raised with great urgency in these days because of recent tensions between the Vatican and the Catholic Church in the United States.History shows that Rome has always been suspicious and fearful that the American Catholic Church would become too American and in the process lose what is essential to its Roman Catholicism. Jay Dolan points out two historical periods in which attempts were made to incorporate more American approaches and understandings into the life of the church, but these attempts were ultimately unsuccessful.In the late eighteenth century, the young Catholic Church in the United States attempted to appropriate many American ideas into its life. Recall that at this time the Catholic Church was a very small minority church. Dolan refers to this movement as a Republican Catholicism and links this understanding with the leading figure in the early American church, John Carroll. Carroll, before he was elected by the clergy as the first bishop in the United States in 1789, had asked Rome to grant to the church in the United States that ecclesiastical liberty which the temper of the age and of the people requires.


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